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Bamboo Cottage

Wang Wei, Wang Wei poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry by Wang Wei
(699? - 761) Timeline

English version by
Doug Westendorp

Original Language
Chinese
Buddhist
Taoist
8th Century

Alone in the dense bamboo, I sit
playing my lute, humming along.

Lost to this world, who will notice
but the bright moon shining?


from Bamboo Cottage: Poems and Translations, by Doug Westendorp

 

 

 

Themes

  Moon
  Sound
 
 
 


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An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, Translated by Stephen Owen
The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu, Translated by Vikram Seth
To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone

 

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